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Rapid development of digital technologies like big data, advanced communications and multimedia is greatly enhancing the modern life while security and privacy are inviting increasingly challenges. At the same time, it provides unprecedented business opportunities for the industry particularly in the local ICT industry.

The Informatics and Control Technologies section of the IET Hong Kong is taking an initiative in organizing a technical conference, the “ICT Conference 2019 – Tech-Pillars for Tomorrow”, to provide a forum for the government officials, key industry professionals, and university researchers to share on the government policy, the opportunities and threats in the ICT era, as well as the latest development and applications which will help Hong Kong be constructed as a competitive smart city.

Cloud Security Alliance Hong Kong & Macau Chapter is honoured to act as a supporting organisation for the event.

CSA Knowledge Sharing Event provides an excellent opportunity for cybersecurity professionals to discuss the latest trends and developments in IT and in the process build a close-knitted cybersecurity community in Hong Kong and Macau.

This month we have invited Ms Rose Chu, Chief Project Consultant of SM Partners (SZ) Ltd and a certified trainer and coach of PRINCE2 and AgilePM, to deliver a talk on “From Business Agility to Agile Project Management”.

TOPIC: From Business Agility to Agile Project Management
– What is Agile Management
– The difference between agile management and traditional management methodology
– How to promote agile management within an organisation
– Case sharing

The Hong Kong ICT (HKICT) Awards aims at recognising and promoting outstanding information and communications technology (ICT) inventions and applications, thereby encouraging innovation and excellence among Hong Kong’s ICT talents and enterprises in their constant pursuit of creative and better solutions to meet business and social needs.

There are eight categories under the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019, with the Smart Business Award covers 4 streams, including Solutions for Business and Public Sector Enterprise, Solution for SME, Big Data and Open Data Applications as well as Information Security. There will be one Grand Award in each category, and an “Award of the Year” will be selected from the eight Grand Awards by the Grand Judging Panel.

Cloud Security Alliance Hong Kong & Macau Chapter is proud to support the initiative. For further information of the award please visit: http://www.hkcs.org.hk/ictawards/.

CSA Knowledge Sharing Event provides an excellent opportunity for cybersecurity professionals to discuss the latest trends and developments in IT and in the process build a close-knitted cybersecurity community in Hong Kong and Macau.

This month we have invited Mr William Tam, Director of Sales Engineering, APAC, of Forcepoint LLC, to deliver a talk on the best practices in Cloud application security.

The TALK:

Making use of Cloud technology is unavoidable nowadays. For most Cloud adopters and developers, security features aren’t their top of mind. Because there are no real standard practices yet, the risks presented by the myriad Cloud applications varies widely. For Security practitioners, comparing to traditional security design, they may have difficult time to design security controls for Cloud users as Cloud is very dynamic and flexible in nature. In this seminar, we will walk you through the challenges we face in adopting Cloud, best practises in Cloud Security and solutions that can help Security practitioners achieve their control objectives.

With over 25 year of experience in cyber security, William is leading a team of security evangelist and product specialist across Asia Pacific, helping customers to embrace the cloud securely and manage the risk in digital transformation with a human centric approach by focusing on the rhythm of people as well as the flow of data in and out of the organization.

Started as an engineer with Websense in 2003, William became a subject matter expert in both web security and data loss prevention. He was involved in some of the largest DLP deployments in the region with well over 30,000 endpoints across eight APAC countries.

The Consortium aims at bringing together international cyber security experts, senior management in public and private sectors, IT practitioners and LEAs to exchange knowledge and intelligence on cyber attacks and share best practices on critical infrastructures protection and incident response.

The consortium will include a 2-day conference and a number of seminars and workshops demonstrating management and technical theories and applications on cyber security. In addition to the management and technical tracks, there is also a special track containing three areas of interest, namely Cyber Security and Fintech, Cyber Security and Smart City as well as Critical Infrastructure Protection in order to provide participants with insights of these emerging fields of cyber security in a holistic manner.

The Hong Kong Police Force, together with other LEAs, will also share the latest cyber security trend with participants from a law enforcement perspective. It is undoubtedly one of the flagship events in the cyber security arena in Hong Kong for you to stay tuned of the latest trend of cyber security and learn from overseas and local experts.

Apart from the main conference of the Consortium to be held on 23-24 October 2018 (Tuesday – Wednesday), there will be a closed-door session for invited local and overseas LEAs in the morning of 25 October 2018 (Thursday).

Cloud Security Alliance Hong Kong & Macau Chapter will support the Cyber Security in E-Payment Conference organised by BSI on September 21, 2018.

In address to the trend in online payment, the event will provide a platform for different parties to showcase and to spread good practices in cyber security. Security issue is important to all organisations and individuals. It is crucial to learn the latest trend and secure your online transactions.

Cloud Security Alliance supports CLOUDSEC, the leading internet security conference in Asia Pacific and Europe, on a regional basis. The Hong Kong event will be held on August 14, 2018 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Center.

CLOUDSEC Hong Kong 2018 gathers together renowned experts, industry thought leaders, businesses and organizations from across the globe to re-evaluate and redefine their understanding of threats, risks and solutions in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

With a theme of “The Freedom to Connect”, CLOUDSEC Hong Kong 2018 provides an avenue for enterprises and organizations to discuss and collectively address issues such as the increasingly complex cyber-attacks, new government policies, and the widening cybersecurity skills gap. So that they can implement strategies and solutions that are resilient enough to withstand the fast-changing landscape of a hyperconnected world.

Ian Christofis, founding board member of CSA HKM, will host a panel discussion entitlted “Building Cyber Resilience in a Hyperconnected World” during the event.